Word: thrifts
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Vintage stores and thrift stores also serve as great resources for fashion and budget-conscious students. Above all, Hartman advises students to have fun with their clothes. “Don’t be afraid to experiment, customize and make things yourself. It’s always better to stand out than to blend in, even if you make a few mistakes along...
...pricey side. Yet there is another path. Think unique, think cheap, think freak—as in you freakin’ out on the dance floor while your adoring public tries to figure out where you picked up your one-of-a-kind threads/earrings/bag/shoes/lunchbox. Thrift, consignment, vintage…used fashion items are classified in many ways, but one thing is certain—used stuff is inexpensive, fun and gives ’em somethin’ to talk about. What else is fashion...
...coffee shops--the hipsters too have their imitators. "There's definitely the hipsters, and then there's the gypsters," jokes Blake Miller, 33, the lead singer of Moving Units, a punk-inspired Silver Lake band. "There's people who figured out they just need to go to a thrift store and buy a tattered blazer and cut one side of their hair shorter than the other. And that's unfortunate because that usually is the first sign of a scene getting ready to crumble." It can't bode well when, for $100 a month, a store can rent an iPod...
...punk princess AVRIL LAVIGNE, charity began in the T-shirt bin at a thrift store, where she found a sporty green-and-gold number that she wore in the video for her song Sk8ter Boi. Turns out the T shirt came from a Wilkesboro, N.C., elementary school, which has since been inundated with calls from fans looking to buy one. The result? A windfall for the school, which was struggling to find cash to pay for new computers. Maybe it could pay Lavigne back by teaching her how to spell skater...
...While Hong Kong's economic woes have given a boost to the city's thrift culture, Low B Club's vintage chic may well have a tough tussle ahead?discerning shoppers may not take kindly to being seen at a place whose name means "Low IQ" in Cantonese?even if it comes from an inside joke between a pair of pop princesses...